And that’s why I carry a waterproof tin of survival food tablets.
25 Replies to “The Children Are Our Future”
I once wondered how such an offensive and terrible form of music (and I use the term music very loosely) could have such staying power. That is until I realized that it is in part agenda driven and actually has very little to do with music.
Did you notice that in the lower right of the drawing/diagram, that it says that in “1989 – the last graffiti train was removed from service”.
At the same time, “the gravey train” arrived and was put into permanent, full time service.
I am sure as group, Africans are a fine people, however, the American branch of the family,… well.. not so much!
I thought it said ‘Grandmother Flash’. I guess I’m just not up on this hip-hop stuff.
I’m getting worried now because allot of Liberals are driving up gun sales lately.
Not that I fear they will ever take the time to learn how to load them, much less use them properly, but it will be like taking candy from a baby if and more likely when the inner city “Obamba” riots begin.
Well, unless we can get to them first of course but it does really complicate matters.
When I hear the term “hip hop” I release the safety on my pistol. I think it should be perfectly legal to send RPG’s through the windshields of any vehicles that play such crap (usually at about 150 db). Why can’t it just die out like that other musical perversion, disco?
I mean, did we really come accross like total dipshits when we were making our own mark in history?…like this pitiful genre?
Ok, just shoot me….now!
Nothing will ever replace Disco for being the worst music in mankind’s history. No not even Rap.It was a short but horrible interlude of the 70s
I don’t see anything wrong with it. Apparently the kids are learning to read, organize their thoughts and to communicate effectively using writing. If these skills had already been taught in the younger grades like they should have, then maybe the teacher could force them to write a book report on a Margret Atwood novel instead of Hip-Hop, but really, would that have been more useful to them?
I remember doing an essay “The Beatles vs. The Moody Blues” in high school. (Yes, the Beatles were still together when I hit Grade 9.) Beatles won.
Shows what I knew. I can’t stand the Beatles anymore but the Moodies are on my ipod big time.
Some kids are hard to reach. As long as it makes the little pukes read and write English, its all good. At least they’re not getting their @sses shot off selling crack.
By all means, let’s celebrate the degenerate drug fueled culture of the inner city underclass. After all this is what 50 years of Dem plantation building and welfare has produced.
Revnant Dream, am going to have to disagree. Disco, while it was horrendous, was still music and one could distill all of the disco that was ever put out into 2-3 not bad songs. One can’t do that with(c)rap. It’s not even music. It represents the total degeneration of what used to be a relatively advanced culture. Hard to believe that the same race that came up with the Blues and Jimi Hendrix could create this crap. Devo was a spoof, but in (c)rap we’re seeing devolution in action.
The world’s going to Hell in a handcart. “And in the last days, wisemen (and myself) will wish themselves dead”.
While LBJ’s Great Society was kicking-in to destroy the black family, the same thing seemed to be happening to the culture and music. The Black influence and outright dominance in Jazz, Blues, Rock, Soul, and R&B happened before the federal programme’s effects were felt. Black dominance in those genres still exists but it seems mostly by people now as grey as they are black. Rap / Hip Hop, IMHO is as degraded as the culture that produces it.
Okay I have to chime in.
I was a 24 year old rock guitarist when the “gansta rap” craze hit. All the insecure white guys started wearing their jeans on the wrong side of their asses and ended every second word with “izzle”.
I laughed at them, and a few of them took a good hard look at themselves and stopped being “wiggers”
The rest of them became Liberals.
I can still make my ‘Strat sing, I still can walk into a guitar store, plug in and draw a crowd without saying a word.
They just for the most part do bad beat poetry over a canned track and call it music.
There are a few rappers that I listen to, for aesthetic reasons, they have something worth saying beyond smoke dope, pretend to be a “thug” while hiding behind record company bodyguards , driving the record companys’ Bentley “rolling ‘dubs” (22 inch rims that look ridiculous)
Fueling from inner city drug cartels that make “white robber barons” seem like white knights.
Yep, it’s a dirty business all around, but we have more and more artists debuting on The Pirates Bay every year. Take away the money, and real art will shine.
I anybody is wondering, I turned down a g’mnt music grant, and told the Banff Center to get bent.
I’m too punk rock for interpretative jazz hand dancers, and have no regrets.
dwright
And don’t get me started on embedding diamonds into your teeth, or “bling” in general.
Losers, need to find a honest mirror.
It is quite reasonable to introduce disciplines like history to students by focusing on topics of interest to those students. Assuming that Miss Simone’s students were actually interested in hip-hop “music” and “culture” (as opposed to just Miss Simone being interested), the project could have merit. However, a look at the teacher’s “test” confirms that her approach is no different from that of a thousand other shallow social studies teachers, stuck on lower-order questions, regurgitation of whatever information and cod-analysis the teacher has given them, and expressions of the students’ “feelings” about something that they may or may not have any genuine “feelings” about.
We see the result of this approach to education in an American president who appears to know very little about his predecessors (e.g. Rutherford B. Hayes) but has learned to express his “feelings” about them.
and uall never danced to disco , i don’t believe u
(Pulls pants up to mid chest). Hey you $%** kids, get offa my lawn!!!
When one must reject the templates of “success” because it is Whitey’s version, then what to what does one aspire? Hip hop culture is representative. Not much there for future generations to stand on.
The core problem I see is that rejection of success: education and learning; stable families; diligent work; entrepreneurial risk taking… Because it is white.
This is where Obama fails. The opportunity is to inspire by altering the branding of success. Instead, he promotes “spreading it around”.
If the students really do call her Miss Simone as the article claims, then the NYC school system probably has a good teacher in her. She has respect. And moxie. And independent thinking.
As to hip hop (is rap part of hip hop or is it a separate “genre”?), the article again says that Simone has engaged the kids with what they are familiar with. I’m reminded of the Sidney Poitier movie, ‘To Sir With Love’. The subject matter may be hip hop, the lessons learned are in life skills.
I’m in shock!!
How could anyone with ears say anything disparaging about disco? The music of my teens! I learned to dance disco so I could impress the girls. 😉
Free I still have ABBA Gold Mp3 on my hard drive.
I remember the 8-track in my parents station wagon.
The Rolling Stones and Rod Stewart sold out to Disco( they blame it on Cocaine) still makes me smile.
Cheers
dwright
I just realized that I came out as a true punk.
No sane man admits he loves ABBA; right?
Whatever.
Every sane man with ears loves Abba, Mr. Wright. “The Swedish Beatles”, I sometimes call them.
I once wondered how such an offensive and terrible form of music (and I use the term music very loosely) could have such staying power. That is until I realized that it is in part agenda driven and actually has very little to do with music.
Did you notice that in the lower right of the drawing/diagram, that it says that in “1989 – the last graffiti train was removed from service”.
At the same time, “the gravey train” arrived and was put into permanent, full time service.
I am sure as group, Africans are a fine people, however, the American branch of the family,… well.. not so much!
I thought it said ‘Grandmother Flash’. I guess I’m just not up on this hip-hop stuff.
I’m getting worried now because allot of Liberals are driving up gun sales lately.
Not that I fear they will ever take the time to learn how to load them, much less use them properly, but it will be like taking candy from a baby if and more likely when the inner city “Obamba” riots begin.
Well, unless we can get to them first of course but it does really complicate matters.
When I hear the term “hip hop” I release the safety on my pistol. I think it should be perfectly legal to send RPG’s through the windshields of any vehicles that play such crap (usually at about 150 db). Why can’t it just die out like that other musical perversion, disco?
I mean, did we really come accross like total dipshits when we were making our own mark in history?…like this pitiful genre?
Ok, just shoot me….now!
Nothing will ever replace Disco for being the worst music in mankind’s history. No not even Rap.It was a short but horrible interlude of the 70s
I don’t see anything wrong with it. Apparently the kids are learning to read, organize their thoughts and to communicate effectively using writing. If these skills had already been taught in the younger grades like they should have, then maybe the teacher could force them to write a book report on a Margret Atwood novel instead of Hip-Hop, but really, would that have been more useful to them?
I remember doing an essay “The Beatles vs. The Moody Blues” in high school. (Yes, the Beatles were still together when I hit Grade 9.) Beatles won.
Shows what I knew. I can’t stand the Beatles anymore but the Moodies are on my ipod big time.
Some kids are hard to reach. As long as it makes the little pukes read and write English, its all good. At least they’re not getting their @sses shot off selling crack.
By all means, let’s celebrate the degenerate drug fueled culture of the inner city underclass. After all this is what 50 years of Dem plantation building and welfare has produced.
Revnant Dream, am going to have to disagree. Disco, while it was horrendous, was still music and one could distill all of the disco that was ever put out into 2-3 not bad songs. One can’t do that with(c)rap. It’s not even music. It represents the total degeneration of what used to be a relatively advanced culture. Hard to believe that the same race that came up with the Blues and Jimi Hendrix could create this crap. Devo was a spoof, but in (c)rap we’re seeing devolution in action.
The world’s going to Hell in a handcart. “And in the last days, wisemen (and myself) will wish themselves dead”.
While LBJ’s Great Society was kicking-in to destroy the black family, the same thing seemed to be happening to the culture and music. The Black influence and outright dominance in Jazz, Blues, Rock, Soul, and R&B happened before the federal programme’s effects were felt. Black dominance in those genres still exists but it seems mostly by people now as grey as they are black. Rap / Hip Hop, IMHO is as degraded as the culture that produces it.
Okay I have to chime in.
I was a 24 year old rock guitarist when the “gansta rap” craze hit. All the insecure white guys started wearing their jeans on the wrong side of their asses and ended every second word with “izzle”.
I laughed at them, and a few of them took a good hard look at themselves and stopped being “wiggers”
The rest of them became Liberals.
I can still make my ‘Strat sing, I still can walk into a guitar store, plug in and draw a crowd without saying a word.
They just for the most part do bad beat poetry over a canned track and call it music.
There are a few rappers that I listen to, for aesthetic reasons, they have something worth saying beyond smoke dope, pretend to be a “thug” while hiding behind record company bodyguards , driving the record companys’ Bentley “rolling ‘dubs” (22 inch rims that look ridiculous)
Fueling from inner city drug cartels that make “white robber barons” seem like white knights.
Yep, it’s a dirty business all around, but we have more and more artists debuting on The Pirates Bay every year. Take away the money, and real art will shine.
I anybody is wondering, I turned down a g’mnt music grant, and told the Banff Center to get bent.
I’m too punk rock for interpretative jazz hand dancers, and have no regrets.
dwright
And don’t get me started on embedding diamonds into your teeth, or “bling” in general.
Losers, need to find a honest mirror.
It is quite reasonable to introduce disciplines like history to students by focusing on topics of interest to those students. Assuming that Miss Simone’s students were actually interested in hip-hop “music” and “culture” (as opposed to just Miss Simone being interested), the project could have merit. However, a look at the teacher’s “test” confirms that her approach is no different from that of a thousand other shallow social studies teachers, stuck on lower-order questions, regurgitation of whatever information and cod-analysis the teacher has given them, and expressions of the students’ “feelings” about something that they may or may not have any genuine “feelings” about.
We see the result of this approach to education in an American president who appears to know very little about his predecessors (e.g. Rutherford B. Hayes) but has learned to express his “feelings” about them.
and uall never danced to disco , i don’t believe u
(Pulls pants up to mid chest). Hey you $%** kids, get offa my lawn!!!
When one must reject the templates of “success” because it is Whitey’s version, then what to what does one aspire? Hip hop culture is representative. Not much there for future generations to stand on.
The core problem I see is that rejection of success: education and learning; stable families; diligent work; entrepreneurial risk taking… Because it is white.
This is where Obama fails. The opportunity is to inspire by altering the branding of success. Instead, he promotes “spreading it around”.
If the students really do call her Miss Simone as the article claims, then the NYC school system probably has a good teacher in her. She has respect. And moxie. And independent thinking.
As to hip hop (is rap part of hip hop or is it a separate “genre”?), the article again says that Simone has engaged the kids with what they are familiar with. I’m reminded of the Sidney Poitier movie, ‘To Sir With Love’. The subject matter may be hip hop, the lessons learned are in life skills.
I’m in shock!!
How could anyone with ears say anything disparaging about disco? The music of my teens! I learned to dance disco so I could impress the girls. 😉
Free I still have ABBA Gold Mp3 on my hard drive.
I remember the 8-track in my parents station wagon.
The Rolling Stones and Rod Stewart sold out to Disco( they blame it on Cocaine) still makes me smile.
Cheers
dwright
I just realized that I came out as a true punk.
No sane man admits he loves ABBA; right?
Whatever.
Every sane man with ears loves Abba, Mr. Wright. “The Swedish Beatles”, I sometimes call them.